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+ Best Feel-Good Movie of the Year + Best Huge Flop Movie of the Year
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| With a chipped front tooth and a lovable grin, co-star James Corden invites on this poster for David Frankel's One Chance |
In the heavy mining environment of Wales, Paul Potts grows up an overweight boy with a heart that beats strongly for opera. Despite setbacks Potts breaks through.
One Chance is written by Justin Zackham (The Bucket List (2007)) and directed by New-Yorker master filmmaker David Frankel (Miami Rhapsody (1995)), whose 6th feature it is. It is the real-life story of Britain's Got Talent singer sensation Paul Potts.
It is a classical underdog story, served with British humor and sweet romance on the side. James Corden (Cats (2019)) is impossible not to like, despite his character's periodic self-pity, and he beats the basically formulaic film into the ventricles of the heart. He gets good support from Alexandra Roach (The Kid Who Would Be King (2019)) as his good girlfriend and later wife and Mackenzie Crook (Ironclad (2011)) as his mobile salesman manager/friend. Julie Walters' (Calendar Girls (2003)) co-starring turn brings back memories of her performance in the fantastic Billy Elliott (2000), a film whose heights One Chance never gets near to matching.
Colm Meaney (Alan Partridge (2013)) is fair as Potts' opponent father. One Chance is full-throttle sentimental feel-good.
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Watch a trailer for the film here
Cost: 12 mil. $
Box office: 10.9 mil. $
= Huge flop (returned 0.90 times its cost)
[One Chance premiered 9 September (Toronto International Film Festival) and runs 103 minutes. Frankel reportedly took a diminished salary (1.2 mil. $ reduced from 6 mil. $) in return for a profit participation percentage. Shooting took place around October 2012 in Wales and England, including London, and in Italy. The film opened #55 to a 33k $ first weekend in 43 theaters in North America, where it peaked at #46 the following week in the same amount of theaters and grossed 101k $ (0.9 % of the total gross). The film's biggest markets were the UK with 3.8 mil. $ (34.9 %), Australia with 1.8 mil. $ (16.5 %) and Denmark with 614k $ (5.6 %). The film was nominated for a Golden Globe, among other honors. Frankel returned with The King of 7B (2015, TV movie), OneRepublic: Let's Hurt Tonight (2016, music video) and theatrically with Collateral Beauty (2016). Corden returned in a music video, a short and a TV movie prior to his theatrical return in Into the Woods (2014); Walters with a voice performance in Justin and the Knights of Valour (2013) and physically in The Harry Hill Movie (2013). One Chance is fresh at 63 % with a 5.50/10 critical average at Rotten Tomatoes.]
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